Economy

The IMF's austerity plan hasn't worked. Greece's possible recovery is down to a construction program boosting the economy.

Updates on Memphis workers locked out; problems of on-line education; capitalism, wealth inequality, and Starbucks; and Gallup on Americans' dissatisfied with their economy, and more.

85 people control the same amount of wealth as half the population of the entire world, and the top one percent has 65 times the wealth of the bottom …

Paul Krugman: “Almost all of the Bitcoin discussion has centered on positive economics - can this actually work? And I have to say that I'm still deeply unconvinced.”

Congress can't find the willpower to raise taxes on the rich, but that hasn't stopped them from chipping away at our retirement and slashing our social safety net, and …

Long-term employees accuse oil giant BP of greed, exploitation and lying about their pensions.

The likelihood of stopping the Trans-Pacific Partnership is stronger than it ever has been.

We require an economic and political governance structure that ensures all human beings have access to basic necessities while reducing human pressure on the biosphere.

There is plenty of evidence that fast track authority is going down to defeat.

The Lies the USTR is spreading about fast track authority to push TPP through Congress.